x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment descriptor
authorRicardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:25:41 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:50:12 +0000 (21:50 +0100)
commit670f928ba09b06712da34a3c44be6c8fa561fb19
treec76f11a6cc413112bdcc0f4cc33675203368fcbf
parent32d0b95300db03c2b23b2ea2c94769a4a138e79d
x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment descriptor

The segment descriptor contains information that is relevant to how linear
addresses need to be computed. It contains the default size of addresses
as well as the base address of the segment. Thus, given a segment
selector, we ought to look at segment descriptor to correctly calculate
the linear address.

In protected mode, the segment selector might indicate a segment
descriptor from either the global descriptor table or a local descriptor
table. Both cases are considered in this function.

This function is a prerequisite for functions in subsequent commits that
will obtain the aforementioned attributes of the segment descriptor.

Improvements-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: ricardo.neri@intel.com
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509135945-13762-15-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c